On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Steve Kiarie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sorosteroge@yahoo.com">sorosteroge@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have installed koha on an institute that has several institutes and each institute has a server running a mysql sever.<br>
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how can i interconnect all the three databases to so as they can all be at sync where by users can borrow books and return books in any of the three institutes.<br>
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I do not want to maintain one koha server with several libraries and branches because am not on a reliable Network.<br>
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I want them to be updating each other.</blockquote><div><br>Why would "updates" be any more reliable, especially when there is no mechanism for data integrity across different DBs? I.E., you have no way to know whether a barcode, itemnumber, biblionumber, etc. is already in use in one of the other DBs, so you can't possibly know what it refers to. One DB w/ multiple libraries (branches) is the only way to approach this.<br>
<br>--Joe Atzberger<br></div></div>